"Cambodian Government Set to Further Weaken Labour Rights and Export Workers to Qatar", 22 May 2015

Cambodia’s plans to further reduce its weak labour protections have come under attack from the ITUC and Global Union Federations. A series of new measures, being developed behind the scenes by the government, would further restrict rights for the country’s impoverished workforce.The new legislation would exclude large segments of the workforce from labour law protection, set unreasonably high membership thresholds for union registration, give the government sweeping powers to suspend unions, undermine collective bargaining rights and allow government officials to ban strikes or lock-outs without proper recourse to the courts. Cambodia is also believed to be preparing to export a first batch of workers to Qatar, following a 2011 agreement between the two countries....The ITUC and Global Union Federations IndustriALL and UNI have written to Prime Minister Hun Sen calling on the government to shelve the plans and instead introduce a law that complies with ILO standards.